a collection of musings and snippets from my life

Musings

So here we are, on the first day of 2018. My last days of 2017 were both hectic and lazy, loud and fuzzy, so this is my first opportunity to sit down and reflect on the past year. It feels almost surreal that a new year is already upon us....

I’m writing this on the train, as I head north towards home for the holidays. I’ve made this journey many a time since starting university but there’s always something that makes me stop what I am doing and stare out of the window. Sometimes it’s the view as we pull...

Change has always aroused a sort of anxiety in me, the type that makes me want to flee in retreat to my comfort zone. It’s something that often feels terrifying and unpredictable, unyielding in its capacity to force relinquishing of control and pull you along its turbulent path. Change is...

It is still with some disbelief that I can now say I am halfway through my vet degree. Two and a half years out of five. Two and a half years of happy moments, of endless learning, of realisations, of doubts and of more struggles I have ever had in my...

One night, less than a year and a half ago, I laid in bed on the phone to a friend, trying to balance my side of the conversation while resisting the pull of sleep. We’d had many calls like this, hours lasting beyond midnight. Our conversations flowed, naturally switching between topics...

Today was my first day of semester 2 at vet school and tonight I’m taking the opportunity to rewind. Lights dimmed, music on and a cup of tea by my side as I look to the year ahead. My last couple weeks of 2016 were blissfully spent with loved ones. ...

I'm Beverley, 21 years old, infp-t, vet/lit student. A girl of many words, fragments in my mind waiting to be strung together,
brought to life and perhaps shared on this little online journal of mine.
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